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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 14 2022 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
On a side thought...with Marc Murphy & Krouzer retired and Ed Curnow not playing at the moment, Andrew Phillips would be challenged in recognising many players in the Carlton team he was playing against.  It really showed how much we have turned the list over in recent years.

And thank goodness we did!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Carlton Fixture
The last few seasons it has updated itself without having to do anything.

And I know the AFL are only releasing a few rounds at a time.

Carlton FC?? Bueller??
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Robert Heatley Stand / Carlton Fixture
Can anybody assist in explaining where and how to get the Carlton fixture into my iPhone calendar...??

A Google search takes me to a Carlton website page from 2017!

Yes, I'm having one of those days...
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Meatloaf Dead..
Record companies released press statements that an album has been "shipped platinum", where the albums were shipped to stores only to have them returned at a later date.

These days, sadly, record companies pump up how many streams a song has had.  A million streams is worth about $10,000 to the artist and is killing the viability of music.

It's a bit like journalists quoting social media as a source for a story.  You have to be careful about what you believe...
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Meatloaf Dead..
Quote from: LP on

I've always felt those stats are a bit dubious, because it seems to depend heavily on the source of the data and a certain level of continuity in management/ownership.

Do you know how they work the cut off for these figures, or how they are calculated?

The thing that alerted me to an anomaly a few years back was an interview I watched with Elton John. He thanked Australia for buying over 1 million copies of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, yet when I looked it up official sales were only 200,000, but that 200,000 was an "at the time" of release figure and there seems to be no update after many decades ago!

I've also heard recent attributes of bands like Cold Chisel, Australian Crawl and Skyhooks selling close to 1 million of their hit albums in Australia but they never seem to appear in official figures.

The "Bat out of Hell" figures seems to be accumulative, as are many others in that list!

btw, I'm not disputing the figures, I'm just curious that there seems to be such a massive differential from some other obviously huge and very commonly found albums.

Years ago when I worked for the newspapers, one of my mates at work was the editor for the music reviews, back then it was a big part of the weekend papers, he'd claim back then which was in the 80s/90s nobody else's sales even came close to ABBA's sales!

I know what you mean, but I have written two books on this type of music trivia.  I always try to fine two independant sources or quotes before including it.  A lot of figures are based on charts and records from America, England  Australia.  The difficulty happened when Asia built a pirate black market which blew out figures.  I don't include those...
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Meatloaf Dead..
Australia’s biggest selling album ever is Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out Of Hell” selling nearly 2 million copies here. 

It’s the 4th biggest selling album in the world.

That’s a lot of Meat Loaf…!!  RIP
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The Sports Desk / Re: An Eerie Silence
Can I suggest that when there are health issues involved, it might not be the best look for this site to start a idiotic pile on??  Surely, we are better than this...

The silence might be out of respect for Robbo and his family as he goes through this.